Latest from Matthew Hays
Forbidden Love, our great Canadian sapphic love letter, remains a vital watch 31 years later
Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman's 1992 documentary paints a tender, carefully considered portrait of lesbian life.
It's alive! Fantasia Festival made a grand in-person return — but not without pandemic scares
Despite Covid's unrelenting presence, the popular Montreal horror and genre-focused film festival is finally back in full form.
Meet the Montreal producer behind The Power of the Dog, the most-nominated film at this year's Oscars
Roger Frappier is a Quebec industry veteran who has wanted to turn the book into a film since first reading it more than a decade ago.
Pandemic Diaries
Journalism is more important than ever — and we can't let the pandemic destroy the industry
Writer Matthew Hays has seen his field jeopardized time and time again, and he's issuing an urgent warning about the threat it's facing now.
Met While Incarcerated: This new documentary profiles women who sought love with imprisoned men
"This documentary is ambiguous in that I don't have the answer. I do know you don't understand mercy until you have to give it or need it yourself."
The wild story behind Quest For Fire — the oddly Canadian film that narrowly avoided disaster
Elephants trained like mammoths. Erupting volcanoes. Fake languages. Prehistoric sex. How did they make it out alive and to the Oscars?!
Pride
Sex, subversion and self-acceptance: 'Peter Pansexual' flies you to a campy adult Neverland
This ain't Disney. Glam Gam Productions' sex-fuelled Peter Pan reimagining is all camp on the surface — but it has an important message at its heart.
Chucky attacks Winnipeg! The serial-killing doll wraps his seventh film in the Great White North
Filmmaker Don Mancini explains why the Manitoba winter was the right fit for the latest instalment in his campy horror series.
With Canada's oldest hospital shutting down, this documentary commemorates its role in history
For filmmaker Annabel Loyola, the Hotel-Dieu was "the heart of Montreal" — so she decided to channel her sadness into a cinematic tribute.
Reel art: This Montreal filmmaker is repurposing celluloid to create film light boards
Richard Kerr's "celluloid weaves" give new life to old film strips — and some of the most striking ones are on display now.